Expansion
 

Great news ADPi's! We are expanding. Rockhurst University will have a colony chapter in the Fall of 2003! We will be the 3rd National Sorority on the campus (I think). There is already a local sorority that will be the first Alpha's of the campus. Great news for the First and Finest!!! :D

EXCELLENT NEWS! Thanks so much for keeping us all in the loop valpogal99! I adore hearing about expansion in general, but of course I especially love it when I learn that will be gaining more ADPi sisters at a new campus.
I wish Rockhurst the best of luck. By the way, where is Rockhurst U. located? Just wondering...
violets

Yippee!!! I'm SO excited...I love seeing new chapters coming on the scene. I still remember when Valpo was the newest chapter (not so long ago!) and it's great to see more chapters developing elsewhere!

Rockhurst University is a Jesuit university located in Kansas City, Missouri. Main campus is "just south of the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City's cultural and research district" and there's a south campus in SW KC. There are about 3000 students, with 70% undergrad and 30% in grad programs, with 700 residential students.

"At Rockhurst there are three nationally affiliated social fraternities for men: Alpha Delta Gamma, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Tau Kappa Epsilon. There are two nationally affiliated social sororities for women: Alpha Sigma Alpha and Zeta Tau Alpha." So there will be three and three. That'll be nice.

http://www.rockhurst.edu/About.shtml

Other Colonies?
 

I've read on some other sites that there is also a colony at George Mason University. Just curious if Rockhurst will be Theta Alpha or Theta Beta. Anyone know?

George Mason?!?!?!?!?!??!!

I know a legacy going there who just went AOPi, since there wasn't an ADPi!!! I hope her mother doesn't find out!!

George Mason Colony????
 

Yep, George Mason. Here's some of the sites the George Mason "colony" was listed on...

http://www.gettysburg.edu/college_li...20chapters.htm

http://raider.muc.edu/Organizations/ADP/Chapters.htm

http://groups.northwestern.edu/alpha...i/chapters.htm

It's on alot of chapter lists right after Eta Omega at Centre College. Didn't see any mention of it after doing a search on the George Mason site. Maybe it was a colony that failed :( Anyone have any info?

Congratulations to Alpha Delta Pi & Rockhurst University!!!! THis is exciting!

Re: George Mason Colony????
 

I couldn't find it when I went through the Student Organizations and found the list of Greek orgs there...there's only four sororities there. Maybe someone was misinformed? I never heard of a colony at George Mason through the website or the Adelphean.

Well, it sounds like Rockhurst is ready for another NPC chapter, so I hope the expansion goes really well. Are there any ADPis on the board who have worked with the expansion team, or were sisters in recently colonized chapters? I suppose all you Valpo sisters would be the most recent? That must be incredibly challenging and exciting. That's got to be an amazing area of ADPi volunteering. Knowing myself I would barely be able to eat or sleep I'd be so wrapped up in it...
violets

I have volunteered to help out with the Rockhurst expansion and I was part of the Eta Psi (Valparaiso) colony. We also have a great Alumnae Association in the area. It helps that there will now be 4 colleges in the area with chapters (KU, UMKC, and William Jewell are the 3 already existing in the Kansas City, MO area). It provides a great support group for the expansion of ADPi in this area!

Re: Re: George Mason Colony????
 

That "George Mason colony" was listed on greekzone or greeksource or wherever it was that I got the basis for my All Chapter List... back in *1999*!!! So no, they don't have a new colony.

If you email HQ, I bet they'll have info about a colony that was planned by never was installed or fully initiated at George Mason in the late 1990s. But no, it isn't "real".

The GMU.edu site is a poor place to find out what colonies and even full chapters are actually at George Mason University.

Thanks for the link! I found Molly, who I mentioned in my earlier post! She's towards the end of the Slide Show, a tall gorgeous blonde. Not that I'm prejudiced! ;)

Asking if anyone can shed light on this...

I received the chapter minutes from my chapter (as an alumna, I still like to know what's going on and see where I can help!), and one of the officers reported this:

"E.O. News-Colony at Rockford fell through, but new chapter at Florida Coast approved "

Jen, have you heard anything about this? I'm just wondering since I know that you're in the area there.

Thinking well wishes for ANY colony that is out there (be it an ADPi colony or another NPC/IFC/etc)

Well did the minutes say 'Rockford' or 'Rockhurst'? I ask because the colongy we are discussing is Rockhurst. There might be a Rockford University where we had another colony that fell through.
I would maybe contact EO for more information. They would most certainly know the answer.

Brianna

P.S. Does anyone else find it kind of odd that we don't have chapters in New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Maine, New Hampshire, Deleware and New Jersey?

Plus, doesn't it seem odd that we only have two or less chapters in the following states: Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mississippi and Maryland.

One thing to point out, I am looking at my Alpha book which has a map Chapters of Alpha Delta Pi as of July 1997, so I'm sure things have changed. I was just curious about this. Plus, some of the states are pretty self explanitory why we only have a few chapters, if only one (like Nevada).

Brianna, I think we've had chapters in a lot of the states you've mentioned, but are now closed. Utah comes to mind.

One really good recruitment tool is to get a map of the United States, mounted (or you mount it!) on foam Display Board. Using blue & white push pins, mark everyplace where there's a chapter with one color, and everywhere there's an alumnae group with the other. You'll be so surprised, you'll impress yourselves! :)

Honey, that is an excellent idea. I'm going to pass in on to my DG sisters at U of A. They have spring rush pretty much the first or second week of the semester and then I'm sure they will continue with COR for the rest of the semester.

Brianna

Like Honey said, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, and Maine all had collegiate chapters at one point in time, but they have since closed. The other states have never had a collegiate chapter.

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Plus, doesn't it seem odd that we only have two or less chapters in the following states: Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mississippi and Maryland.

Colorado's two chapters have closed, Oregon's two chapters have closed, Indiana had five chapters at one time, but two have since closed, New York had six chapters at one time, but five have closed.

It's always rather interesting to see what chapters have been in which states, and I'm hoping to see many more chapters spring up, in states that have never had a chapter and those who've had chapters closed (maybe have them rechartered!)

In regards to the Rockford/Rockhurst colony, I did a copy and paste from the chapter minutes...maybe it was a typo, but I couldn't even find anything on National's website about any colony that we had in progress. Of course, when I posted that message, I didn't even see that it had said Rockford and not Rockhurst, so if there's another colony, I apologize for stirring up a hornet's nest.

No problem. I was just curious. It saddened me to know that possibly the Rockhurst colony won't acutally colonize. If that makes any sense at all.

Brianna

Sorry to hear that ADPi may not colonize at Rockhurst. :( BTW, I'm not Greek, but I live in KC & I think that Rockhurst is in need of more organizations. I'll be transferring from my jr. college to UMKC in the fall & I think they could benefit from expansion as well. KC is a culturally diverse city & it comes together within it's colleges & universities. It's so wonderful to walk on campus & see so many different ethnicities, heritages, creeds, & colors together pursuing education. However, I think that it's sad that there are no MCGLO/LGLO's on UMKC/Rockhurst's campus. I would love to be part of getting a colony established of a *certain* Latina-based sorority that supports diversity within their organization. I think the world of them, and if ever given the opportunity to help bring them to UMKC, I would absolutely love it! :D:D:D

For those who liked this idea & may use it, there's one more aspect that can make it interesting! PM me for the details - double secret rush stuff, don't you know? ;)

Rockhurst
 

I was informed also that the Rockhurst Colony fell through from an advisor of lambda. :(